Now wait a second... so, we're going to force cable cards, and then as the year goes on, we're slowly going SDV which doesn't work with V1 cable cards?! Am I missing something or does this sound like a horrible idea that not only will be a pain to customers, but will also be a huge waste of money for cable companies? Also, how does this affect On Demand content? Are we getting bi-directional boxes that work just fine, but use the CC as secondary authentication and "security"? Or are we going to a cable card standard that's going to kill all bidirectional signals? Until cablecard is up to date (like v2 should be, if it's ever released), I don't want to use it.
On the contrary to previous comments, I don't see how Cable companies currently have a strangle hold. I don't know about all of them, but from what my local cable company (TWC) and my general understanding, most, if not all cable companies offer cable cards rather than their own set top boxes. Additionally, with TWC, the set top boxes are free/part of the service (standard, not DVR obviously). Personally I see CableCARD as the worst idea to come to TV in a long time.
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Andrew @ Jun 12th 2007 10:07PM
Now wait a second... so, we're going to force cable cards, and then as the year goes on, we're slowly going SDV which doesn't work with V1 cable cards?! Am I missing something or does this sound like a horrible idea that not only will be a pain to customers, but will also be a huge waste of money for cable companies? Also, how does this affect On Demand content? Are we getting bi-directional boxes that work just fine, but use the CC as secondary authentication and "security"? Or are we going to a cable card standard that's going to kill all bidirectional signals? Until cablecard is up to date (like v2 should be, if it's ever released), I don't want to use it.
On the contrary to previous comments, I don't see how Cable companies currently have a strangle hold. I don't know about all of them, but from what my local cable company (TWC) and my general understanding, most, if not all cable companies offer cable cards rather than their own set top boxes. Additionally, with TWC, the set top boxes are free/part of the service (standard, not DVR obviously). Personally I see CableCARD as the worst idea to come to TV in a long time.